its setting” (Ṭā Hā 20:130). Neither al-Baghawī nor Ibn al-Jawzī understood it to signify anything other than the prayer, as we have already noted.

177 — The same applies to the verse in Sūrah Qāf.

Ibn al-Jawzī said: “And glorify with the praise of your Lord”—that is, perform the prayer while extolling your Lord and declaring Him far above what the false claimants allege. He therefore treated “praise” as comprising both commendation and the denial of the assertions made by the deviant. ⦗1⦘

178 — Al-Baghawī, for his part, wrote: “So pray as praise to Allah.” ⦗2⦘ In such passages he merely transmits what al-Thaʿlabī recorded in his Tafsīr; and al-Thaʿlabī, in turn, conveys the words of others—whether he attributes them by name or passes them on anonymously—rarely composing a phrase of his own.

179 — A number of scholars use the same wording, saying: “‘And glorify with the praise of your Lord’—pray as praise to Allah,” making the act of prayer itself an expression of praise, just as one might say, “I do this in praise of Allah,” meaning: in gratitude.

180 — This view rests on the interpretation that “with the praise of your Lord” means “by virtue of His being praiseworthy,” after which the verbal noun is construed as annexed to its object—but that is not